He subsumes logogram, ideogram, and sumerogram under "Wortzeichen" (§3E) and says that logogram is the most common one at the time of writing. von Soden, Wolfram: Grundriss der akkadischen Grammatik (Outline of the Akkadian Grammar), Rom, 1995: He speaks of "Wortzeichen" (word signs) and discourages the term ideogram (§5c).

Sep 28, 2019 · For example, the Hittite word taru "wood, tree" can be written with a logogram and phonetic complement as ĜIŠ-ru. But this same sequence of signs can also be read as ĜIŠ RU (more properly ĜIŠ GEŠPU, even more properly ĜIŠ ĜEŠBU), a …

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Sep 2, 2022 · None of these terms is truly standardized. For example, "ideogram" or "ideograph" is sometimes used to mean the same thing as "logogram" and sometimes used to mean something completely different, depending on the source. Given the excerpt you posted, this author's usage seems to be: "Symbol" is a general term for a graphic that means something.

Nov 20, 2021 · For example, the Sumerian word for "mouth" was pronounced ka; when Sumerian scribes started using the "mouth" logogram to mean the sound /ka/ in other contexts that had nothing to do with mouths (e.g. to spell out case markers), that was the rebus principle in action. A modern example would be using the symbol "2" as an abbreviation for "to" or ...

Jun 15, 2017 · The Chinese symbol 狗 always represents the word gǒu, 'dog'; so it can be said to be a logogram for gǒu, 'dog'. However, like English with 'dog' and 'hound', Chinese has other words for 'dog', like quǎn ; and quǎn isn't written as 狗 but rather 犬.

But now, I'd like to go one step further and find the actual Hittite (or Akkadian) word represented by the logogram. In other words, I'd like to find the word represented by NINDA-an the way wiyanas "wine" is represented by GEŠTIN-as or hassus "king" is represented by LUGAL-us.

Jan 27, 2023 · Hittite transliteration distinguishes between Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hittite words in a text (DIŊIR, ILUM, or sius for "god") but does not distinguish the origin of the signs: a, iṣ, and wi₅ (originally a logogram for "wine", Sumerian geštin, Akkadian karānum, Hittite wiyanas) can all be used to write the sounds of Hittite words, and ...

Nov 10, 2023 · SIG₇ "yellow-green", then, looks like the sign LIM with some extra strokes decorating it, probably being used here to mean 10,000. We don't know how the word for "10,000" was pronounced, but conveniently it looks the same as the logogram for "yellow-green", so we can use that name for it.

Jan 5, 2020 · As a familiar example, the word lugal = "king" is etymologically a compound of lu = "man" (written with the sign lu 2) and gal = "big", and the sign most commonly used the write it (usually transcribed as a single logogram) is a compound of the corresponding signs — although written in the reverse order (lugal = GAL+LU 2) for some reason.